BACKGROUND
Health insurance premium exemptions for pregnant women are a strategy to increase coverage of maternal health services in sub-Saharan countries. We examine health insurance registration among pregnant women before or after the introduction of a premium exemption, and test whether registration increases utilization of maternal health services.
METHODS
Data were drawn from a retrospective cohort study of 1641 women having given birth between January 2008 and August 2010 in two… CONTINUE READING